Collapsible display rack

Abstract

A collapsible display rack designed particularly for mounting floral displays. The rack comprises a looped rod base frame mounting a grid of spaced, horizontally arranged wire-like elements secured across its face. A collapsible, bracketed standard supports the grid. A plurality of hooks, and a trough for holding tools and supplies are demountably mountable on selected components of the grid in desired locations.

I claim: 
     
       1. A collapsible display rack comprising: a) a looped rod base frame having a face, a back, a top, a bottom and two sides,   b) a grid of spaced, horizontally arranged wire-like elements secured across the face of the base frame,   c) an upper horizontal support bar centrally mounted across the sides of the base frame,   d) a lower horizontal support bar mounted across the sides of the base frame, adjacent its base,   e) a standard having top, bottom and side segments,   f) hinge means hinging the top segment of the standard to the upper support bar,   g) slide and guide means mounted on the side segments of the standard, longitudinally thereof,   h) at least one bracket means having inner and outer ends, the inner end being operatively received in the slide and guide means; and   i) second hinge means hinging the outer end of the bracket means to the lower support bar.   
     
     
       2. The display rack of claim 1 wherein the grid is dimensioned to extend beyond the sides of the base frame and bent to wrap around the same, thereby providing a grid face segment and at least one communicating side segment. 
     
     
       3. The display rack of claim 1 in combination with a plurality of hooks, each hook including an outwardly extending hook finger, a base, and mounting means releasably mounting the base on selected ones of the wire like elements of the grid. 
     
     
       4. The display rack of claim 3 wherein the mounting means comprises friction clamp mounting means. 
     
     
       5. The display rack of claim 1 in combination with a horizontally arranged trough and trough mounting means releasably securing the trough to the grid wire like elements. 
     
     
       6. The display rack of claim 5 wherein the trough mounting means comprises hook means contoured and dimensioned to hook over a selected one of said grid wire like elements.